In Conversation | with Jo Sax on the Art of Animal Photography

Join us for an exclusive event featuring Jo Sax, a renowned photographer and image maker known for her captivating work with animals. Jo's unique approach combines fine art with playful humor, creating a magical world where animals take center stage. This conversation will delve into her creative process, the inspiration behind her work, and the technical expertise that brings her visions to life.

Highlights of the talk:

• Discover Jo's creative journey: learn from the experiences that shaped Jo's career.
• Explore her diverse body of work: Understand the variety of projects she undertook and the unique elements that define her style.
• Uncover the image-making process: gain insights into how to craft enchanting images, from concept to completion, all explained through Jo's photographs.

About Jo Sax:

Jo Sax is a photographer and image maker, specialising in work with animals. Through sets and carefully crafted scenarios, in real locations as well as individual portraits, Jo’s work creates a highly stylised magical world of light and colour, shot through with her characteristic playful humour, in which animals are the stars, and humans mute witnesses to their antics. Drawing on her fine art training and extensive experience in the photography industry, Jo creates narratives out of the unexpected, visions that constantly delight and surprise, and uses her own memories and imaginings as the starting point for a series of arresting and provocative images. Jo brings technical expertise and a forensic attention to detail, built on the exacting standards demanded by her experience in the advertising industry. Her work has been exhibited and published extensively over the last twenty years, and in that period, she has honed a distinctive and unique aesthetic, a world of wonder and revelation.